Types of Biomes
This is the second northern-most biome that is covered with coniferous forests.
What is a taiga?
The area of the deep ocean far from shore.
What is the oceanic zone?
This is an interconnected biological system made up of living organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Related to water
What is aquatic?
This is an area where animals, plants, and other organisms live.
What is a habitat?
This is an area with rainfall less than 10 inches a year and temperatures reaching more than 110* C.
What is a desert?
The area of the ocean that extends from the shoreline to the continental shelf.
What is the neritic zone?
These services that an ecosystem can provide to humans include tourism and forms of recreation such as fishing, hunting, and photography
What are cultural services?
A habitat in which shallow pools of water form and there is poor drainage in the land.
What is a wetland?
The non-use of natural resources by humans.
What is preservation?
This is an area where flat plains are covered with a few trees. The temperature ranges from 40 to 100*F.
What is a grassland?
These are the three layers of the ocean from closest to the surface to the bottom.
What are epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic?
This type of ecosystem services include the basic necessities of life like firewood or other fuel, food, and water.
What are provisioning services?
Earth-bound, existing on the Earth rather than in water
What is terrestrial?
When nature is disrupted by houses or other structures built on a piece of land, with areas of untouched nature in between them.
What is habitat fragmentation?
This biome is the northernmost terrestrial habitat which is treeless and the subsoil is frozen year round.
What is the tundra?
This sub-zone of the ocean ranges from the surface of the ocean to about 200 meters deep. It gets a large amount of sunlight.
What is the epipelagic sub-zone?
This type of ecosystem services keep the Earth's resources in place, for example, grasses growing on a shoreline to stabilize it, or the way in which decomposers keep waste from piling up.
What are regulating services?
Invertebrate aquatic animals such as crab, lobster, or shrimp
What are crustaceans?
Rebuilding an area back to it's natural state.
What is habitat restoration?
This type of biome has trees that lose their leaves during the winter season.
What is a deciduous forest?
This sub-zone is at the bottom of the ocean where conditions are cold and dark and receives no sunlight.
What is the bathypelagic zone?
This type of service supports life on Earth. An example would be photosynthesis-- without this there would be no life on Earth.
What are supporting services?
microscopic marine algae
What are phytoplankton?
This is when pollution makes a habitat unsuitable for sustaining life.
What is habitat degradation?